Video Schedule DAY

Video materials used in class illustrate many topics covered in this course. Consider these presentations similar to lab sessions, that is, watch them carefully and critically rather than simply watch another movie or video. The exams will include these materials, and it will be assumed that you have paid critical attention to them.

On Order:

The Human Family Tree
(96 min., 2009)
National Geographic
Genographic Project

Patterns of Adaptation
(30 min., 2008)

Patterns of Variation
(30 min., 2008)

Discovering Ardi
Discovery Channel

Week

Day

Date

No.

Title

"Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots"
part 2 of The Story of Hominid Evolution
(47 min., 1997)

Good supplementary video:
Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution -- Films for the Humanities
(52 min., 1998, VC 4325)

• view on-line at www.learner.org/
  (registration required, but is free)

Good supplementary video:
Dead Men Talk
(50 min., 1991, VC 2175)
-- includes Qafzeh

check static on videotape

The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]

Episode 1: "The Mammoth Hunter" (52 min., 1999)

Episode 2: "The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]" (52 min., 1999)

Also available at the UMD library:

Neanderthals on Trial -- NOVA
(60 min., 2002, VC 4333)

For fun, have a look at Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 2001, VC 4592)

[The facts and datails in this presentation are good, but the dramatization gets a little carried away. Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

Alien from Earth
(56 min., 2009, CC, DVD 1749)

The "Hobbit" Class Page
Homo floresiensis

Good supplementary video, for fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted"
from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, cf. Chs. 5-7)

Other parts of the series include:

• "Frozen in Time: Life in the Upper Paleolithic Age"
  (51 min., part. 2, 2000, VC 3906)
  ~ including information on figurines
• "The Human Story: Traces of Humankind's Oldest Relatives"
  (51 min., part. 3, 2000, VC 3906)
  ~ including information on Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal, Cro-Magnon

The Iceman
(56 min., 1992)

Good supplementary video:
The Iceman -- Films for the Humanities
(97 min., 1998, VC 4327)

Another good supplementary video: 
Ice mummies. Siberian Ice Maiden -- NOVA
(57 min., 1998, VC 3963)

• view on-line at www.learner.org/
  (registration required, but is free)

* time permitting